Workday CEO wants workers to return to the office ASAP
Working from home impedes the creation of a "great culture and an inspired workforce," according to Aneel Bhusri.
This week Aneel Bhusri, the CEO of Workday, created some controversy when he told an audience from Goldman Sachs that he cannot wait to see people return to the office instead of wor...
Citrix is in talks to buy Vista Equity’s Wrike
The deal, rumored to be worth over $2 billion, would represent a COVID-driven increase in Wrike's valuation since 2018.
This week Bloomberg reports that Citrix Systems is in advanced talks to buy the work-management platform company Wrike for more than $2 billion. Bloomberg's reporting is accord...
Logitech launches new Rally suite of products for videoconferencing
The new Logitech Rally Bar, Rally Bar Mini and RoomMate work with Microsoft Teams and Zoom as well as other systems from GoToMeeting and RingCentral.
Logitech this week unveiled its latest products for the video conferencing industry. The company launched what it calls a "next generation" portfo...
Microsoft Teams is getting a new “History menu” in February
This latest feature aims to make life easier for Teams users.
Tracking online meetings, video conferencing and other events in Microsoft 365 is about to get easier, thanks to a new "History menu" feature in Microsoft Teams.
The Microsoft 365 Roadmap entry indicates that the feature will launc...
Zoom is planning to compete in the email and calendar market
Zoom wants to create competition in the productivity market, where Google and Microsoft stand out as the big players. According to some sources, Zoom is developing its own web-based email service and may launch a calendar too.
The information is still scanty about the calendar. However, there ar...
Zoom adds support for Apple Silicon
Zoom has released a new version of its video conferencing software with native support for the Apple Silicon M1 chip. This should allow the software to perform better on Apple's new ARM-based computers.
In the release notes of version 5.4.7, Zoom indicates that the new version has better support...
Google Meet to support more languages with live captioning
Additional European languages will be added for captioning.
Google announced this week that it will be beefing up its live caption capability in Google Meet. This is the video calling service formerly known as Google Hangouts. Google is adding support for live captions in four new languages, acc...
MessageBird acquires Pusher for $35 million
After recently receiving a $3 billion valuation, after a Series C round in October, MessageBird has made a move to acquire the London-based real-time web tech company, Pusher. The acquisition price is $35 million, with Pusher co-founder and CEO Max Williams and the small Pusher team of 25 people jo...
Soon you can use Outlook inside of Microsoft Teams
The new business-friendly integration should be available in March 2021.
Last year, Microsoft improved Outlook integration in Teams for Windows 10. That integration is about to become more comprehensive, according to the company.
The full integration with Outlook will allow users to share an ...
Facebook is phasing out Workplace Essential
Facebook will sunset the free service and ask users to upgrade to a paid plan.
Facebook has announced that it plans to "retire" Workplace Essential, the free tier version of its Workplace Enterprise social network platform. The free version product will cease to be available from February 10, 20...
AWS unveils RedShift ML to make machine learning more accessible
Amazon's VP of machine learning, Swami Sivasubramanian, offered a keynote on machine learning during the second week of Amazon Web Services' re:Invent conference.
During the keynote, Sivasubramanian announced that SageMaker, the company's middleware platform for machine learning, will go forward...
Cisco unleashes a “wave of WebEx innovation”
The move follows Cisco's announcing an agreement to acquire IMImobile and intent to acquire Slido.
Cisco this week announced a wave of acquisitions and innovative Webex enhancements. The new features aim to help organizations better collaborate and transform their employee and customer experienc...